Posted AT 6:00 AM EDT on 12/02/08
Danish police arrest suspects in plot to kill cartoonist
COPENHAGEN — Danish police arrested several people Tuesday suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Mohammed drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago, authorities said.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, “to prevent a terror-related murder,” the police intelligence agency said.
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